Death Penalty Is Dying

The death penalty is dying, but it lingers in hospice. See an excerpt from an article by "Independent":

In 2015, only 28 people were executed here, the least in a quarter century (and one of them after a 36-year wait on death row). Moreover, all but four died in just three states: Texas, Georgia and Missouri.

Of the 50 US states, 34 haven’t executed anyone over the last five years, and soon South Carolina, another historical bastion of the death penalty, will join them.

Juries too are handing down far fewer death sentences, only 49 in 2015. Texas, long America’s chief executioner, was responsible for only two of them. For the first time in decades, the death row population has dropped below 3,000 – and only a relative handful of them will actually meet their end in the execution chamber.

Continue reading the article at http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-death-penalty-situation-in-the-us-has-just-become-even-more-absurd-something-has-to-give-a6986966.html

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Bipolar Execution Victim in Texas: Adam Ward

We are discussing capital punishment at my Facebook page. I am an anti-DP advocate and believe executions must end in the USA. This is particularly true for mentally ill Americans like Adam Ward, a 33-year-old bipolar man who Texas executed on Tuesday, March 22. The Huffington Post recently ran a story entitled "Bernie Sanders Speaks Out Against The Death Penalty After Hillary Clinton Stands By It." Senator Sanders said, "I believe it is time for the United States of America to join almost every other Western, industrialized country on Earth in saying NO to the death penalty."

When people enter controversial comments on my Facebook page and stalkers prevent their names from linking in my response, I feel that my response is censored. Sometimes I then enter said responses in an article in this "Justice Gagged" blog. I learned long ago that the hackers work for executioners, racists, and Nazis. The people, organizations, and topics I was writing to or about when I was most harshly censored may be surprising, including the NAACP, the national adult vaccination plan, Christianity, and Michelle Obama. Anti-dp language is always certain to be censored, which is why I usually run a separate digital camera when dealing with that subject online. My films will be made available to purchase for a nominal fee at CreateSpace. Americans should know which subjects are considered exempt from free speech protections by elitist Nazis.

My response below to Terry Harris would not link her name, although I tried multiple times. See part of the conversation below. You can read the entire discussion at my Facebook page, link
https://www.facebook.com/marylovesjustice

Terry Harris I feel horrible about mental illness, however if they kill then they should be executed like everyone else!

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Walt Stawicki i don't know where to start ripping that one apart.

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Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill Define "everyone else," please, Terry Harris. Then please cite a case where a murderous #police officer or wealthy person was #executed in the USA. Thanks.

Make an immediate #humanrights  demand that no persons with diagnosed mental illnesses be executed in the USA. Make Adam Ward their last disabled victim. https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials MLJ

We congratulate Bernie Sanders, an anti-death penalty advocate, for our victories in Alaska, Washington, and Hawaii. We urge officials everywhere to say DEATH to the death penalty.

Mary Neal, MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com, (678)531-0262

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Kudos, Nebraska: No More DP

Nebraska abolitionists are to be congratulated, as are all people who place high value on humane solutions to crime and who advocate an end to America's barbarism. Nebraska became America's first conservative state to end capital punishment. We appreciate Nebraska's legislature for doing that. The Atlantic was one of many media companies that published the victory. A brief excerpt from The Atlantic is below:

Nebraska on Wednesday [May 27, 2015] became the first conservative state in more than four decades to repeal the death penalty. Its legislature, officially non-partisan but dominated by Republicans, voted by the narrowest of possible margins to override a veto by Governor Pete Ricketts, and enact a law scrapping a punishment that the state has struggled to carry out.

Read more at this link:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/how-nebraska-banned-the-death-penalty/394271/

Below is a modified excerpt from an article titled "MaryLovesJustice Advocacy Fundraiser":

The Davis-MacPhail Truth Committee believes we can hasten the day when capital punishment ends nationwide if abolitionists change tactics. Most anti-dp organizations try to appeal to hardhearted people's sense of compassion. Newsflash: Elite white supremacists have no compassion; their god is money. It costs up to $90,000 more per year to warehouse each inmate on death row than to house him/her in the general prison population, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Our Davis-MacPhail Truth Committee usually addresses the financial burden that executioners make taxpayers bear because they are money-hungry and bloodthirsty. If executioners were not so mercenary, death row inmates would be executed long before they are, 10 years to 30 years after sentencing. But prison investors keep condemned people alive on death row for decades, not out of compassion but to make more money. That is good news, because most people who were finally exonerated were imprisoned for a very long time. If condemned people were executed sooner, America would execute many more innocent people.

The Davis-MacPhail Truth Committee believes that abolitionists must make executions more expensive.  We advocate for LAWSUITS after each execution if any reason at all can be found to sue. Executions would get more media exposure by suing. Anti-DP organizations should sue after mentally ill people are executed. Sue after potentially innocent people are executed, especially if DNA tests were denied. Sue after guilty people are executed if the executions were torturous. Sue, sue, sue. Lawsuits mean significantly more to killers than candlelight vigils do. I believe the key to ending executions to to make them more expensive through lawsuits, just as speeders are deterred by traffic fines. Access the entire article at
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2015/07/mayrlovesjustice-advocacy-fundraiser.html

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Nebraska May Repeal DP

Dear Mary, Nebraska just moved one step closer to repealing the death penalty. Yesterday we asked for your help in contacting legislators in Nebraska to ask them to vote "YES" to LB 268 which would repeal the state's death penalty. I'm happy to report that you put the pressure on, and the Nebraska policymakers listened. They voted 32-15 to end the death penalty in Nebraska. We thank you! We're not done yet though. Governor Pete Ricketts has vowed that he will veto this bill. We need all 32 legislators who voted to repeal the death penalty to hold their votes in order to override a governor veto. Thank you for being part of the success. Thanks to your help, Nebraska could be the 19th state to abolish the death penalty.   Congratulations! Diann Rust-Tierney Executive Director National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty ****** This article was published in the Davis/MacPhail Truth Committee blog for our anti-dp organization. Please share it with your online networks.  "Continue to fight this fight" ~Troy Anthony Davis Anti-DP message by Mary Neal, director of ~Davis/MacPhail Truth Committee ~Dog Justice for Mentally Ill ~Human Rights for Prisoners March ~Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI") MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com phone (678)531.0262 or (571)335-1741

Rodney Reed, Innocent Death Row Inmate in TX

Georgetown, Texas – Rodney Reed is sitting on death row in Texas for a 1996 murder that he probably did not commit, and if nothing is done to stop the execution, he be killed on March 5, 2015.

FreeThoughtProject reports that even the family of the victim is now coming forward in Reed's defense, saying instead that Stacey Stites' fiance, a former cop, was likely responsible for the murder. The 19-year-old victim was engaged to Officer Jimmy Fennell when she was murdered in 1996. During that time, Fennell was under various disciplinary investigations at the department, because he was stalking and harassing women while on the job. Over the years, mountains of evidence surfaced implicating Fennell as the person who killed Stacy. Fennell is presently in prison, having been convicted of rape in 2007.

Please sign the Change.org petition to save Rodney Reed
http://chn.ge/1wPTXyL?recruiter=802110

Reed was recently denied DNA tests to prove his innocence, while the likely killer, a former police officer, is jailed for rape. Read more about the case at FreeThoughtProject.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/rapist-cop-killed-wife-death-row-crime/

Reed is innocent until proved guilty. For some reason, the system wants to kill him without definitive proof. We applaud the Campaign to End the Death Penalty for launching the petition for Reed, which presently has over 14,000 signatures. Please share it with your social networks to encourage others to help Reed. 

"Test every item handled and we can determined who did this crime, but for whatever reason, the State of Texas has decided they want to execute a man without finding out those answers," said Bryce Benjet, an attorney with The Innocence Project.
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/27481959/update-judge-denies-death-row-inmates-request-for-more-dna-testing

Stacy Stites and her survivors deserve to have the right person prosecuted and sentenced, not a convenient black man who might be innocent.

Racism lives in the USA's corrupt justice system. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals hears cases out of Texas. That court was made famous by Judge Edith Jones, who was subjected to a judicial review after numerous groups filed an ethics complaint for her reportedly racist comments. Jones reportedly believes that denying condemned people a stay of execution forces them to repent and "save their souls." 

RH Reality Check reports: Some of those comments included claims that certain “racial groups like African-Americans and Hispanics are predisposed to crime” and are “prone to commit acts of violence” including more violent and “heinous” crimes and that Mexicans would prefer to be on death row in the United States than serving prison terms in their native country, according to the complaint [filed by numerous human and civil rights groups]. Jones allegedly accused defendants who raise claims of “mental retardation” of abusing the system. Jones called claims that the death penalty is racist or arbitrary a “red herring.” 

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/10/16/civil-rights-groups-appeal-dismissal-ethics-complaint-judge-edith-jones/

See more information about Judge Jones in the article, "Judge Edith Jones: Kill Inmates to Save Their Souls"
http://dmtruth.blogspot.com/2013/06/judge-edith-jones-kill-inmates-to-save.html
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The Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP) is a national grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment. It has active chapters and members across the United States—including California, Texas, Delaware, New York, and Chicago. To win abolition, we need to build a grassroots struggle. We believe that those who have experienced the horrors of death row first hand–death row prisoners themselves and their family members–should be at the forefront of our movement. Their experiences help to shape our strategies. - See more at: 
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/

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Webcasts: UN CAT Reviews USA on DP and More

By: UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) GENEVA, Nov. 6, 2014 - The UN Committee against Torture is due to review the USA on 12 and 13 November in sessions that will be webcast live.

The USA is one of the 156 States parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and is required to undergo regular examinations of its record before the Committee of 10 independent experts. The Committee will engage in a dialogue with the US government delegation and also hear from NGOs.

Public sessions: 10:00-12:00 (04:00-06:00 EST) on 12 November, 15:00-18:00 (09:00-12:00 EST) on 13 November
Venue: Room XVII, Palais des Nations, Geneva - Live webcast: 

http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/

Among the possible issues to be discussed: extraterritorial application of the Convention; CIA’s secret detention, extraordinary rendition and interrogation programme; Guantanamo Bay detainees held indefinitely without charge or trial; investigation and prosecution of those responsible for torture or ill-treatment of detainees; immigration enforcement abuses; death penalty, alleged administration of untested lethal drugs; police brutality; prolonged solitary confinement; protection of prisoners against violence; sexual violence in US military.

Further information and the USA’s report are available at: 

http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=930&Lang=en

The Committee will publish its concluding observations here on Friday 28 November.
A news conference is scheduled for Friday 28 November at 14:00 at Palais des Nations in Geneva when the Committee will discuss its concluding observations on the USA and the other countries being reviewed – Sweden, Ukraine, Venezuela, Australia, Burundi, Croatia, and Kazakhstan.

To learn more about the Committee against Torture, please visit: 

http://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cat/pages/catindex.aspx

You are invited watch the webcasts and discuss them during broadcasts on "Human Rights Demand" channel at Blogtalkradio on Nov. 12 and 13 (the time will be announced here). The Davis-MacPhail Truth Committee is interested in solitary confinement, capital punishment, prisoner rape, and other tortures. Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI") is especially interested in the executions of persons with mental illness and low I.Q. scores. AIMI plans an action in International Court in 2015 involving up to 100 claimants of (i) persons with mental illness and/or drug/alcohol addictions, and (ii) people who were victimized by mentally ill people and/or drug/alcohol addicts who were denied timely, appropriate treatment. We seek restitution for and/or relief from police brutality, prison torture, long-term homelessness, and other discrimination against mentally disabled people in the USA. Visit the blog AIMI-HumanRights for more information at

http://AIMI-HumanRights.blogspot.com

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Fed and State Employees Support NCADP

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty CFC # is:  11946

Dear Mary,

If you are an employee of our federal or state government, you can stand up as part of the 90 million strong and show your support for an end to the death penalty by contributing to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty using payroll deduction through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC)? Be sure to use the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's CFC number (11946) when you sign up, and your tax-deductible donation will be automatically deducted from your paycheck.  It's that easy!  

Committing to support the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty through your CFC designation is one of the best ways you can help in our struggle to end the death penalty. And it's an easy way that you can show that the 90 million strong includes people who serve our country daily.

Remember to use CFC number (11946) to help us abolish the death penalty once and for all.  Thank you for standing with us.

Sincerely,

Diann Rust-Tierney
Executive Director

P.S. Designating CFC number (11946) with your charitable contribution will enable the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty to engage the millions of Americans who believe the death penalty is unfair. It is time to take a stand and end the death penalty once and for all. Please also consider an extra one-time contribution to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty at this time.

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ACLU vs. PA over DP Drugs

ACLU sues Pennsylvania for information about lethal injection cocktail
SEPT. 11, 2014
The Pennsylvania chapter of the ACLU, The Guardian, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Philadelphia City Papers are asking state courts to unseal documents that would reveal how, and from whom, the state obtained the drugs it plans to use to execute Hubert Michael, Jr. on September 22.

Hubert L. Michael Jr. pled guilty in October 1994 to kidnapping and first-degree murder for the death of 16-year-old Trista Eng. On July 12, 1993, Eng was walking along Route 15 from her home to her summer job at a restaurant in Dillsburg, York County. Michael stopped and offered the girl a ride to work, which she accepted. Michael drove to state game lands in Warrington Township, York County, where he shot Eng three times with a handgun and then hid her body in the woods.

Michael's execution will not restore Eng's life. Neither is execution necessary to save society from the murderer. Life without parole would accomplish that. Therefore, Michael's execution could only be a revenge killing. If the capital punishment is carried out, then Michael may be subjected to a lengthy, torturous execution using mystery drugs like other condemned people were this year. A state's refusal to release information about execution drugs should necessitate an automatic moratorium.

The last execution in Pennsylvania occurred in July 1999, when Philadelphia torture killer Gary Heidnik was put to death after surrendering his appeals. More information about the history of Pennsylvania executions is available at http://www.cor.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/death_penalty/17351/history/607968

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DP with Mystery Drugs Resumes

Dear Friends,

It happened again. Last night, the state of Missouri put to death Earl Ringo, Jr., despite concerns about the role that race played in determining his death sentence and despite an outpouring of pleas to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon from people of faith, civil rights leaders and activists to halt the execution. This execution, like so many others, took place under a cloud of secrecy with Department of Corrections officials dissembling about when and whether they were using or would use Midazolam, the drug that has been at the center of controversy in the recent spate of botched and horrific executions.

I learned for the first time last Wednesday that DOC officials in Missouri administer Midazolam to prisoners before the execution actually “begins.” They claim that this procedure is consistent with the practice of offering the condemned prisoner a sedative to calm nerves before the execution.

But lawyers for Earl Ringo point out that Midazolam is not the drug normally prescribed as a sedative for nerves and the amount administered prior to the start of an execution is far more than the dosage that would be consistent with a simple ‘calming effect.’

It’s sophistry at best and government at its worst.

We are disappointed that Governor Nixon did not take full responsibility for ensuring that the death penalty system in Missouri operates in a manner that is free of racial bias and discrimination, and that Earl Ringo’s death sentence in particular was not the product of racial bias.

But here is what we are proud of: We are proud of and grateful for the legal team that was courageous, resourceful and compassionate in their efforts to save Mr. Ringo’s life.

We are proud of Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and our allies in the NAACP, ACLU of Missouri, the Catholic Conference and others, and hundreds of volunteers who wrote letters, called, worked and prayed, and organized vigils to make their concerns known to Governor Nixon.

We are proud of the national coalition of organizations and leaders that came together to send a joint statement to Governor Nixon urging him to be reasonable and not go forward with this execution, given so many unanswered questions concerning the racial bias in his case.

We joined with the NAACP, the National Action Network, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Racial Justice, Hip Hop Caucus, Dr. Virgil Wood, and Reverend McBride, Director of Urban Strategies, Live Free Campaign, PICO National Network.

Unfortunately, Governor Nixon did not heed our request. We do believe in accountability.

Please contact Governor Nixon to express your deep disappointment with his failure to stop Earl Ringo’s execution. Ask him to halt all executions from now on.

Act with us. We are 90 Million Strong!

Peace,
Diann Rust-Tierney
Executive Director
admin-info@ncadp.org

p.s. Texas is set to execute Willie Trottie later today. Please contact your friends and families in Texas and urge them to make their voices hear

Head Ripping Machine vs. Tennessee Electrocutions

Orion Satire: Head ripping machine for execution
http://youtu.be/lfsMMVgIToA

NOT SATIRE: Tennessee plans to resume electrocutions.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/22/us/tennessee-executions/

 

http://youtu.be/7GU7jU1HaHo

  
While normal Americans go about our daily lives, psychopaths really are devising new ways to kill people one-by-one and by the millions.

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Marcus Ellons' Georgia Execution - First Since Lockett in OK

The below post at Google+ was wrongly dated December 31, 1969, a date before personal computers or Google existed. I don't know if that means stalkers slate the post for invisibility or not. It regards a Georgia execution that occurred on June 17, 2014, the first since the botched Oklahoma execution of Lockett in April.

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Georgia executioners had a big night on June 17. They murdered fifty-nine-year-old Marcus Wellons, an inmate convicted of rape and murder. He was the first person to be executed in the U.S. since the botched lethal injection of Lockett in OK in April.http://www.christiantoday.com/article/im.going.home.to.be.with.jesus.georgia.prisoners.last.words.before.execution/38207.htm

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Court Upholds Atkins Decision (Hall v. Florida)

A divided court doubled down on its 2002 Atkins decision, ruling that Florida cannot kill Freddie Lee Hall just because his IQ has sometimes passed an arbitrary mark. ~ Hall vs. Florida, The Atlantic, May 2014

From the National Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty:

Dear Mary,   Incredible news: This week the  U.S. Supreme Court dealt another blow to the death penalty in the United States with a landmark decision on capital punishment and intellectual disabilities.    In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court decided that a Florida death penalty statute, which had been interpreted to permit some people with intellectual disabilities to be executed, violates “our Nation’s commitment to dignity and its duty to teach human decency as the mark of a civilized world.”    “The Eighth Amendment’s protection of dignity reflects the Nation we have been, the Nation we are, and the Nation we aspire to be,” said Justice Kennedy. In their decision this week, the Court reaffirmed its ruling in Atkins v. Virginia, which held that the eighth amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment prohibited people with intellectual disabilities from being punished with death.   This is a powerful step towards ending capital punishment, during a critical moment for abolition. Death penalty states have attempted to continue their lethal injection experimentation on inmates, including inmates with harrowing medical issues, to no avail.    Spread the word: We want to share this news far and wide. The more voices speaking out against the death penalty, the more powerful our message.    Here's how you can help: Share on Twitter: More Push Back on Capital Punishment; Supreme Court Rules Against Florida: ow.ly/xmuLI  #HaltAllExecutions #90mStrong PLS RT Share on Facebook: WOW! More Push Back on Capital Punishment; Supreme Court Rules Against Florida---great news, and next steps, for death penalty abolition: ow.ly/xmuLI  Share your story: Why do you oppose the death penalty? Share your thoughts at ncadp.tumblr.com (Already shared your story? Get your friends involved! Share the link on Twitter and Facebook, and raise up more voices from the 90 million strong.)  The 90 million people who oppose the death penalty are online, on the ground, nationwide, fighting for change.    The world is watching.    The time is now.     Together, we can end capital punishment.    Sam Cooper Director of National Programs National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty http://www.ncadp.org/ SUPPORT THE